Good Wives
Author: Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
ISBN: 9780679732570
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 04 Jun 1991
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
This enthralling work of scholarship strips awayabstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising--and, all too often, mourning--her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best.
ISBN: 9780679732570
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 04 Jun 1991
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
This enthralling work of scholarship strips awayabstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising--and, all too often, mourning--her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best.
